Can we in good faith advocate localization and regional development as our economic realities are increasingly dictated by global financial interests? This power vacuum is being felt from communities, to cities, to states, to nations as decision making is increasingly…

“And in some ways, shadows even turn light into another medium of inequality — a resource that can be bought by the wealthy, eclipsed from the poor.” Source: In the shadows of booming cities, a tension between sunlight and…

Based upon a comment on the recent CityLab article, I ran some numbers speculating the potential for urban agriculture to meet food demand in Honolulu. Here is the result: According to a recent study (Loke & Leung, 2013) Hawaii consumes 660kg of…

We at the Asia-Pacific Center for Regenerative Design have posted the dates and registation for out next Permaculture Design Certificate course. Permaculture is a design framework for sustainable human settlement and the course will cover the gamut from agro-ecological food…

A recent article in The Guardian: “Haiti could solve its drastic plastic problem and help its most vulnerable” highlights some of the waste management issues and opportunities in Haiti that were exacerbated by the earthquake on January 12th, 2010. The quake impacted,…